Mary Scales remembered at her life celebration

Community packed church for service thathonored contributions

11:59 PM,
Oct. 12, 2013

Mary Scales

Written by

Nancy De Gennaro
The Daily News Journal

Hundreds gathered Saturday at New Vision Baptist Church to honor the memory of Mary Caruthers Scales, a trailblazer in education and community service. She died Oct. 6 after an extended battle with bone cancer.

"She was a woman of very small stature, but very great influence," said the Rev. James McCarroll, eulogist and lead pastor of First Baptist Church, East Castle, where Mary and her late husband, Robert "Tee-niny" Scales, were longtime members. "She was one of those people who could walk with kings but not lose the common touch. She was able to love unconditionally and ...